How do I use the Simple HTTP client in Android

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How do I use the AndroidHttpClient as an HTTP client to connect to a remote server  I have not been able to find good examples in the documentation nor on the internet

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You can use like this       public static String executeHttpPost1 String url              HashMap lt String  String gt  postParameters  throws UnsupportedEncodingException              TODO Auto-generated method stub          HttpClient client   getNewHttpClient             try          request   new HttpPost url                      catch Exception e               e printStackTrace                        if postParameters  null  amp  amp  postParameters isEmpty    false                List lt NameValuePair gt  nameValuePairs   new ArrayList lt NameValuePair gt  postParameters size                 String k  v              Iterator lt String gt  itKeys   postParameters keySet   iterator                while  itKeys hasNext                                   k   itKeys next                    v   postParameters get k                   nameValuePairs add new BasicNameValuePair k  v                                    UrlEncodedFormEntity urlEntity    new  UrlEncodedFormEntity nameValuePairs               request setEntity urlEntity                      try                 Response   client execute request localContext               HttpEntity entity   Response getEntity                int statusCode   Response getStatusLine   getStatusCode                Log i TAG     statusCode                 Log i TAG   ------------------------------------------------                         try                      InputStream in    InputStream  entity getContent                           Header contentEncoding   Response getFirstHeader  Content-Encoding                          if  contentEncoding    null  amp  amp  contentEncoding getValue   equalsIgnoreCase  gzip                              in   new GZIPInputStream in                                               BufferedReader reader   new BufferedReader new InputStreamReader in                        StringBuilder str   new StringBuilder                        String line   null                      while  line   reader readLine       null                           str append line     n                                              in close                        response   str toString                        Log i TAG   response  response                                     catch IllegalStateException exc                        exc printStackTrace                                  catch Exception e                Log e  log tag    Error in http connection   response                               finally                       return response

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public static void connect String url         HttpClient httpclient   new DefaultHttpClient            Prepare a request object     HttpGet httpget   new HttpGet url            Execute the request     HttpResponse response      try           response   httpclient execute httpget              Examine the response status         Log i  Praeda  response getStatusLine   toString                 Get hold of the response entity         HttpEntity entity   response getEntity               If the response does not enclose an entity  there is no need            to worry about connection release          if  entity    null                    A Simple JSON Response Read             InputStream instream   entity getContent                String result  convertStreamToString instream                  now you have the string representation of the HTML request             instream close                      catch  Exception e            private static String convertStreamToString InputStream is                  To convert the InputStream to String we use the BufferedReader readLine          method  We iterate until the BufferedReader return null which means        there s no more data to read  Each line will appended to a StringBuilder        and returned as String              BufferedReader reader   new BufferedReader new InputStreamReader is        StringBuilder sb   new StringBuilder         String line   null      try           while   line   reader readLine       null                sb append line     n                    catch  IOException e            e printStackTrace          finally           try               is close              catch  IOException e                e printStackTrace                        return sb toString

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You can use this code   int count              try                   URL url   new URL f url 0                    URLConnection conection   url openConnection                    conection setConnectTimeout TIME OUT                   conection connect                       Getting file length                 int lenghtOfFile   conection getContentLength                       Create a Input stream to read file - with 8k buffer                 InputStream input   new BufferedInputStream url openStream                            8192                      Output stream to write file                 OutputStream output   new FileOutputStream                            sdcard 9androidnet jpg                     byte data     new byte 1024                   long total   0                  while   count   input read data      -1                        total    count                         publishing the progress                            After this onProgressUpdate will be called                     publishProgress       int    total   100    lenghtOfFile                           writing data to file                     output write data  0  count                                        flushing output                 output flush                       closing streams                 output close                    input close                  catch  SocketTimeoutException e                    connectionTimeout true                catch  Exception e                    Log e  Error     e getMessage

[android] How do I use the Simple HTTP client in Android?

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